Although GOP leaders act as though climate change doesn't exist -- in red states like Florida even banning officials from even uttering the words (cf. Gov. Rick Scott), the GOP leadership is far from clueless on the issue, its reality and threat.
Their spin doctors provoke red meat voters to drumbeats like what a cold winter it's been in the Northeast, "Little Ice Ages", but that's to keep the Republican base boiling. GOP leaders can't avoid either the science or evidence of climate change.
Doing "something" about climate change is directly opposed to the interests of the GOP's key funders: polluting industries that depend on externalizing costs; whether damage to the atmosphere or using public waters as their sewage outfalls.
The problem for Republican leaders on climate change is the mismatch between the premise of limited government against the real, unlimited liability from climate change.
Their spin doctors provoke red meat voters to drumbeats like what a cold winter it's been in the Northeast, "Little Ice Ages", but that's to keep the Republican base boiling. GOP leaders can't avoid either the science or evidence of climate change.
Doing "something" about climate change is directly opposed to the interests of the GOP's key funders: polluting industries that depend on externalizing costs; whether damage to the atmosphere or using public waters as their sewage outfalls.
The problem for Republican leaders on climate change is the mismatch between the premise of limited government against the real, unlimited liability from climate change.
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